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[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - July 12, 2003



Reflections on M2:
*     It came all together in the end!
*     It wasn't clear which build is the test candidate for the go/no go
decision
      ->we will clarify the process for the M3 finish

M3:
*     Mile stone plans should be posted on the Web by Friday

Build notes:
*     The build notes are still not consistently updated
*     Incremental updating of the build notes after every change avoids
additional
      load during a build finish
*     JDT Core build notes are a good example to mimic

Outreach:
*     Eclipse BOF at ECOOP
      -     Andre gave a what's new presentation, posters and presentations
from
            the community
      -     it was well attended and lots of positive feedback

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Status
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Platform UI:
-     User Experience: Generic Navigator proposal posted.
-     Scalability: Motivation and summary for new contexts API to be posted
later this week.
-     Responsiveness: See Core notes -- had to deal with various deadlock
problems late in M2.

-     Generic workbench
      - revised proposal to be posted today (July 23)
      - groundwork for generic workbench (refactoring the Platform UI) is
proceeding in a CVS branch ("RCP_WORK_1")

-     Focus for M3 is on making real the prototypes and designs we did for
M2.

-     New hire: Doug Pollock, working with Chris on action/command
architecture.

Core:
-     generally good progress on M2
-     good progress on concurrency
      - working well with UI team on API definition
      - initial work done with Team team on background CVS operations
      - initial work done on background builders and listener notification
      - core.resources work still in a branch...to be released to HEAD soon
-     good progress on RCP (OSGi/dynamic plug-in work)
      - demo at M2 of dynamic views being added/removed from a running
workbench
      - able to run on top of multiple (minimally hacked) OSGi
implementations
      - good proof of concept
-     waiting on open source committee before progressing with XMLPull work
-     ran into complications with deadlock at the end of the cycle
      - took more time than desired to investigate
      - but you cannot predict things like that!
-     M3 plan in process of being posted to the web

Releng:
-     Moved to 3.0 M2 plugins in builds.
      The generated extension point doc fails chkpii testing because of a
hard-coded font attributes being set in a style tag.
      For now, will ignore extension point doc in testing until there is a
solution for this.
-     Moved to using IBM 131 sr5 for running build, 131 sr5 (SC) in testing
on Linux, Sun 131 08 is still the vm used for testing on Windows.
-     Still working on moving to testing on Windows ME and Redhat Linux 9 -
ETA, end of this week.

Debug:
-     M3 plan posted
-     Generic console: new implementation of a page book console is in
integration build (but not yet public API).
-     Work started on new "Breakpoint Properties" dialog (using workbench
property pages)
-     Bug fixing

Ant:
-     M3 plan posted
-     Bug fixing

Platform/JDT Text
-     bug fixing
-     M3 planning
-     started work in Javadoc formatting
-     structural improvements to Quick Diff

JDT UI
-     M3 planning
-     Proposal: "Participating in Refactoring" (will be posted early next
week)
-     Working with PDE team on migrating pde.junit to PDE
-     Added support for javadoc in archives

-     New hire: Markus Keller - working with Dirk on refactoring



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